Posts by wearyraven59

It’s probably just a bad cable.

https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Deskto...p/td-p/6227115

I'll grab a new one and let you know how it goes.👍

Yeah, but what does any of that have to do with my actual issue? You're telling me squeezing the screen is supposed to fix it? Look, this was happening ONLY when I was opening or closing the lid, not while I was actually working. In the video you posted, the screen stays like that the whole time. My screen is behaving perfectly fine today, just like it always has. I don't get the logic here—how can the problem be the display itself and not the cable if it only acts up during the physical movement of folding it? On top of that, this thing only glitched once every two weeks, even though I’m running it for 7 or 8 hours a day and opening/closing it at least 7 times daily. 🙂

I'm just asking, please don't take this the wrong way, but none of this makes any sense to me.

Roger Campbell39 said:It’s probably reached its limit. Check with an IT service center, though honestly, repair costs usually aren't worth it at this point.

The screen? That's weird. It’s been working perfectly fine for the last 4 or 5 hours—no pixel issues at all, whether I’m moving the display or just letting it sit still. I’ve only had this laptop for two weeks and this just started happening today.

I mean, why would the screen be broken if everything looks totally normal until I tilt it one way? Sure enough, as soon as I move it, those pixels pop up, and then a second later, everything is back to being fine. To me, that sounds more like a loose cable issue, right?

Otherwise, the laptop is basically mint. You can tell it hasn't seen much action. Even though it's a 2012 model, the battery still holds up for over 3 hours.

Hey everyone, I've got this Dell Latitude and whenever I close the lid, the screen starts throwing out these green and pink pixels. It’s super weird—it actually depends on what's being displayed; if there's black on the screen, you see green lines, and if it's white, they turn pink.

It looks exactly like this:

The thing is, once I open it back up, it's totally fine, and it doesn't act up at all while I'm actually working. But honestly? I'm terrified the whole thing is just gonna die on me soon. Could this be a faulty ribbon cable that needs swapping out? The graphics are integrated, running an i5 3210m processor. Thanks!

I ran a scan on this thing last year and didn't see a single bad sector. One click, and boom, done. Thanks 👍

So, I've got this HP Probook 6540b, and ever since I made the jump to Windows 10, my hard drive has started making this clicking sound right at bootup. It was totally silent back when I was running Windows 7. Now, I even hear it sometimes when I'm shutting the thing down. Look, the laptop has been running 24/7 for about two and a half years without any actual issues—no crashes, no blue screens—it’s just that weird clicking at the start and end of a session.

And get this: back when I had Ubuntu set up for a dual boot, the exact same thing would happen. Sometimes I'd even hear it while I was actually working in Linux. I did some digging and read somewhere that it might just be the drive head parking itself, so I didn't really lose sleep over it.